Australian Stock Exchange-listed Provaris, a developer of compressed hydrogen projects for export, has announced that the engineering design package for its compressed hydrogen carrying vessel is 70% complete and is on track for delivery in June this year.
Martin Carolan, Managing Director & CEO commented: “The design team for the GH2 Carrier continue to make excellent progress on the final design package for discussions with shipyards, an important milestone to refine our cost and schedule for construction and feed into project studies now in progress”.
Key updates
• Design package compiled for construction cost and schedule discussions with shipyards in
Asia.
• ABS Consultants engaged for gas dispersion, fire, and explosion safety studies for the GH2
Carrier.
• Discussions underway with Class Societies on the design and testing program to achieve
Approval for Construction in 2023.
• Preliminary engineering and concept design for port infrastructure solutions required for
compressed hydrogen import and export terminals under development.
• Provaris will include outcomes in its scoping and feasibility studies which are underway and
due for completion in July 2022.
The company says that the packages include hull design optimization (speed-power, structural steel assessments, and intact and damage stability), finite element modelling, shipboard safety systems, general arrangement drawings and a ship outline specification.
Port designs
Provaris also announced that it is progressing its concept designs for the export and import of hydrogen.
Provaris has engaged Paaras Marine Solutions, a marine structural engineering company based in Singapore, to develop and assess port solutions for both the loading and unloading of compressed hydrogen using the Provaris GH2 Carriers.
The scope of the appointment includes:
- Singapore: the concept development of an unloading marine jetty facility in Singapore to receive the carriers for unloading and decompression of compressed hydrogen for local distribution. Concept solutions will include jetty solutions abutting onshore and a facility
located offshore with subsea pipeline connecting on onshore distribution network; - Port Melville, Tiwi Islands: evaluating existing marine facilities at Port Melville to
accommodate GH2 Carriers including the loading facilities for compressed hydrogen. - Barge Storage of Compressed Hydrogen: concept development of a storage barge will
be considered for storing compressed hydrogen based on the requirements for intermittency
or redundancy in the supply chain.
